Edward McIntosh is the regional design director for the Middle East at Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group. His main role at Atkins is to bring clients’ visions to life by creating design concepts that integrate the region’s cultural heritage with sustainable urban design practices.

McIntosh has over 20 years of design and construction experience, having worked in the US, Uk, Europe, China, and the Middle East. Since the beginning of his career, he has had the opportunity to collaborate with architectural legends such as Sir Peter Cook, his personal mentor from his years of study at Columbia University, on the conception and delivery of large, complex, high-profile buildings that are renowned as iconic architectural landmarks.

McIntosh is highly passionate about the intersections of technology, entertainment, urbanism, futurology, activation and architectural design and has lectured and written about these topics in different institutions and publications. He describes his approach to design as “Feel Crafting” – a vision that seeks to create detailed, crafted and unique solutions for each project, focusing on understanding the client’s vision and helping bring it to life.

At Atkins, McIntosh is leading a team of experienced and early career professionals in design and architecture to deliver some of the most transformational projects in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC region. He has presented competition proposals to top level stakeholders and high-profile clients with great success. He has thrived in complex stakeholder scenarios where decisiveness and fast response have allowed him to move the needle in high-profile projects.